Wellcome Collection

A free museum and library exploring health and human experience

Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.
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What’s on

Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.
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The Coming of Age

Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image '‘Wild Apples’, Serena Korda, 2024. ‘The Coming of Age’ ...
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A sermon occasioned by the death of the Reverend Thomas Carthew, F. S. A. Late Minister of Woodbridge, &c. &c. preached at Woodbridge, Jan.16. 1791. By the Rev. John Black

Sermon occasioned by the death of the Reverend Thomas Carthew, F. S. A. Late Minister of Woodbridge, &c. &c. preached at Woodbridge, Jan.16. 1791. By the Rev. John Black (Online) Full text available: ...
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Antimicrobial resistance : tackling a crisis for the health and wealth of nations / the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance chaired by Jim O'Neill.

You can use this work for any purpose, including commercial uses, without restriction under copyright law. You should also provide attribution to the original work, source and licence. Read more about ...
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The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean army. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1831, after himself, 1819.

Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...
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Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. The twelfth edition. To which is prefix'd an account of his life

Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. The twelfth edition. To which is prefix'd an account of his life (Online) ...
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Tackling drug-resistant infections globally : final report and recommendations / the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance chaired by Jim O'Neill.

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1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader

Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image '1880 THAT, an exhibition by Christine Sun Kim and ...
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Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin, entombed alive surrounded by bones in the dungeon. Line engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 11.2 x 15.7 cm ...
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The library

There are over 1.1 million items in our library, exploring art, health, culture and what it means to be human. The library is free to visit and open to everyone over the age of 18, whether you’re ...
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